Association of Position Played and Career Duration and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at Autopsy in Elite Football and Hockey Players

Abstract

In this cohort of 35 former collision sports athletes, no significant associations were found between career duration, position or role played, and CTE presence at autopsy. Although limited by the small and nonrepresentative sample studied, these findings suggest that nonsport factors may be important to understand differing susceptibilities among athletes to CTE.